Background

Professor Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson served as Chief Scientific Advisor of UK Ministry of Defence until September 30, 2007. Sir Anderson served as the Head of Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford from 1993 to 1998. He served as the Head of the Department of Biology at Imperial from 1984 to 1993. He has held a number of advisory and consultancy posts with government departments both in the UK and overseas. Sir Anderson has been an Independent Non-Executive ... Director at Glaxosmithkline PLC since September 28, 2007. He served as a Director of the Wellcome Research Centre 'Parasitic Infections' from 1989 to 1993. He served as a Founding Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at Oxford. He has been a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences since 1999. He serves as a Member of a number of Editorial Boards including the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. He serves as a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London. He served as a Linacre Professor at the University of Oxford from 1993 to 2000. He served as a Lecturer, Reader and was a Professor of Imperial College from 1977 to 1984. He served as a Lecturer in Parasitology of King's College London from 1973 to 1977. Sir Anderson has given many public lectures and is widely published. He has published over 450 scientific papers on the epidemiology, population biology, evolution and control of a wide variety of infectious disease agents, including HIV, BSE, vCJD, parasitic helminths and protozoa, and respiratory. tract viral and bacterial infections. His principal research interests are epidemiology, biomathematics, demography, parasitology, immunology and health economics. He also has a keen interest in science policy and the public understanding of science. Professor Sir Anderson is involved in extensive research collaboration in many developed and developing countries and has worked for the European Commission, the Canadian Government and for US National Academies. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1986 and the Royal Statistical Society since 1987. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He was a Fellow of Merton College. He was a Research Fellow at Oxford from 1971 to 1973. He received a Knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honors in June 2006. Sir Anderson received a BSc in Zoology, 1st Class Honours at Imperial College. He was awarded a PhD in Parasitology in 1971.

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